Italian Catholic mystic — born Caterina Fieschi — who experienced a sudden conversion, devoted herself to caring for the sick and poor of Genoa, and whose mystical theology of purgatory (Treatise on Purgatory) described purgatory as an experience of God's love burning away whatever resists it.
Articulated purgatory as a mystical experience rather than a legal punishment — the fire of purgatory is God's love, experienced as painful by the soul that still resists it but freely chosen by the soul that knows it is being purified — an idea Isaac of Nineveh approaches from the Eastern side.
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